Power Up

In certain crowds, beets, kale, apples, and ginger have become synonymous with breakfast. But you don’t have to embrace the juice fast or seek out a specialty shop to enjoy the benefits. The fresh-pressed drinks—promoted for their immune-system-boosting, cancer-fighting benefits—have hit restaurant menus. Here, a few of Denver’s most delicious, vitamin-packed tonics (paired with don’t-miss dishes).

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Ace Eat Serve

Although best known for table tennis and modern Asian fare, Ace Eat Serve also offers healthy sips. Order the cucumber-beet-apple-kale juice ($6) for its refreshing flavor and cleansing benefits: cucumber flushes toxins, beets cleanse the blood, and kale packs a wallop of antioxidants and calcium. Plus: Watch for Ace Juice Bar, a spin-off entity with curbside delivery, to open on Tax Day.

A lunchtime sandwich spot in the Golden Triangle, Parsley offers an array of simple juices built around carrots, apples, and, you guessed it, parsley. The easy-drinking carrot-apple-ginger combo ($4.95–$6.20) is a nutrient-dense alternative to soda with your midday meal.

At True Food Kitchen, the Medicine Man ($6) just might be a miracle worker. Each ingredient—sea buckthorn, pomegranate, cranberry, and black tea—is chock-full of powerful antioxidants, and they combine to create what’s billed as the ultimate health tonic. A splash of soda water gives the drink a fizzy, almost cocktail-like touch.

Order this: The signature kale salad with breadcrumbs, lemon, and garlic.